After the Civil War, the typical planter in Georgia had plenty of land but no labor to work it. How was slave labor replaced in Georgia?
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Landowners shared resources with each other to keep the plantations going until harvest time.
Large numbers of black Georgians became landowners and hired other black people to work the land.
Landowners allowed people with no land to grow crops on their acreage for a share of those crops.
Many landowners sold their land, moved north, and gave up farming because there was no labor available.
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Landowners allowed people with no land to grow crops on their acreage for a share of those crops is the correct answer.
As we see after the civil war the planters were left without slaves. They were also left with no money to pay free land labours. So we see Crop sharing system developed as an alternative for planters to solve the problem of labour force and cultivate their land. Under the crop sharing the landowners allowed landless labours to cultivate their lands and in return they were give a share of crop at the end of harvest.But the condition of these landless labours was very bad and this system has been described as modified form of slavery.
Answer: The large landowners replaced the slave labours in Georgia after the civil war following the methods of sharecropping.
The landowners shared their resources with each other to do the farming and helped each other in harvesting time.
The labourers with no land were allowed to cultivate in these lands following the methods of sharecropping.